Jimmy Kimmel will host the Oscars for the fourth time

American television presenter Jimmy Kimmel will once again host the Oscars, whose 96th edition will be held on March 10, 2024 at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles (California, USA), the Hollywood Academy reported this Wednesday.

“I always dreamed of presenting the Oscars exactly four times”Kimmel said in a statement issued by the institution, which presented the last edition of the awards in March of this year.

Molly McNearney, his wife and co-writer of ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’, will also return to the gala as executive producer of that ceremony broadcast on ABC.

“We are thrilled to have Jimmy return as host and Molly as executive producer of the Oscars. “They share our love of cinema and our commitment to producing a dynamic and entertaining program for our global audience,” Academy CEO Bill Kramer and President Janet Yang said jointly.

Kimmel presented the gala in 2017 and 2018 and his return in 2023 coincided with the rebound in viewership experienced by the broadcast of those awards, which registered nearly 19 million viewers, according to data from the audience analysis company Nielsen.

For the 96th edition of the Oscars, it is expected that films such as ‘Barbie’, by Greta Gerwig, and ‘Oppenheimer’, by Christopher Nolan, will monopolize the majority of the nominations, although titles such as ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’, by Martin Scorsese and ‘Maestro’, by Bradley Cooper, are also among the possible favorites.

The announcement of the films that pass the preliminary vote (‘shortlist’, in English) will be made on December 18 and, from there, the members of the Academy will have four weeks of margin to finish unveiling, on January 23 , which are the nominated films, directors, actors and actresses.

A month and a half later, on March 10, the 96th edition of the Oscars will be held, which will be preceded by the traditional Oscar luncheon (‘Nominees Luncheon’), scheduled for February 12.

The show will be broadcast live on ABC in more than 200 territories around the world.

Kimmel is one of the longest-serving talk show hosts in American television history. His last job hosting the Oscars, in 2023, earned him an Emmy nomination.

With information from EFE